“You can't live in dread of something for long without beginning to crave it.”

“I didn't cry. Real things don't make me cry. Only false or sentimental things can do that. In this respect I'm like most civilised humans.”

“You love life because life's all there is.”

“Humans are moving into a new phase, one based on the knowledge that talking about their feelings has never got them anywhere.”

“By all means, become an abomination--but only while unhinged by grief or wrath.”

“All motivation derives from the primary fact of mortality. Take mortality away and motivation loses its...motivation.”

“EnnuiTea leaves thwart those who court catastrophe,designing futures where nothing will occur:cross the gypsys palm and yawning shewill still predict no perils left to conquer.Jeopardy is jejune no...”

“Some people just live out their whole lives with some sort of ache in their heart they never resolve.”

“This is what you do now to give your day topography--scan the boxes, read the news, see the chain of your friends reporting about themselves, take the 140-character expository bursts and sift throu...”

“Everything is important. To the smallest insect, even the mouldering tree, the deepest stone in the drift.”

“Now I sense the perfume of flowers like seeing a new thing.I know they smell just as well as I know I existed.Theyre things known from the outside.But now I know with my breathing from the back of ...”

“Existence is a priceless gift and the beauties of nature are the priceless gifts of the existence!”

“A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.”

“Prose divides shame into stations.”

“He lifted his arm that had been resting on her shoulders and gazed at the words she had written on his hand. He had been branded as cattle are branded to show whom they belong to. The cold mountain...”